Speaker: Pavel Etingof (MIT)

Title:  Double affine Hecke algebras

Abstract: Double affine Hecke algebras (DAHAs) were introduced by I. Cherednik in the early 1990s to prove Macdonald’s conjectures. A DAHA is the quotient of the group algebra of the elliptic braid group attached to a root system by Hecke relations. DAHAs and their degenerations are now central objects of representation theory. They also have numerous connections to many other fields — integrable systems, quantum groups, knot theory, algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and others. In my talk, I will discuss the basic properties of double affine Hecke algebras and touch upon some applications.